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Hi everyone,
As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.
When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.
Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.
Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.
Thanks for your patience and support!
Linkage bearings
- Thread starter ken510
- Start date
Eurofreak
Husqvarna
AA Class
-For the linkage I'll find a 1/2" socket and short extension that's the right size to use as a driver. Support the linkage on either side of the bearing to be removed with some blocks of wood or aluminum.
Heat up the area with a propane torch and then pound out the old one. For stubborn ones extra heat and/or penetrating oil.
- For the swingarm bearings same idea but I use a longer extension with the socket or an old dirtbike axle with a flat end.
If you have access to an arbor press or a heavy duty drill press you can pre4ss them out.
-To install, I stick the new bearings in the freezer overnight and heat up the linkage or swingarm and tap then in or use a press.
It's important to only hit the new bearings on the outer race or you will ruin the bearing.
Also make sure there are no retaining clips-don't think so but...